Re: Inserting streamed data

Does your table have an index ?? -- You can probably speed it up
significantly by

Preparing the datafile...
Beginning a transaction...

    Dropping the index...
    Doing the 160,000 insert(s)...
    Rebuilding the index...
    Committing the transaction...

Ending the transaction


"Kevin Old" <kold@carolina.rr.com> wrote in message
news:1036087909.3123.54.camel@oc...
> Hello everyone,
>
> I have data that is streamed to my server and stored in a text file.  I
> need to get that data into my database as fast as possible.  There are
> approximately 160,000 rows in this text file.  I understand I can use
> the COPY command to insert large chunks of data from a text file, but I
> can't use it in this situation.  Each record in the text file has 502
> "fields".  I pull out 50 of those.  I haven't found a way to manipulate
> the COPY command to pull out the values I need.  So that solution would
> be out.
>
> I have a perl script that goes through the file and pulls out the 50
> fields, then inserts them into the database, but it seems to be very
> slow.  I think I just need some minor performance tuning, but dont' know
> which variables to set in the postgresql.conf file that would help with
> the speed of the inserts.
>
> Here's my postgresql.conf file now:
>
> max_connections = 10
> shared_buffers = 20
>
>
> I'm running a Solaris 2.7 with 2GB RAM.
>
> Also, saw this at
> http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/kernel-resources.html
>
> [snip...]
>
> Solaris
>
>         At least in version 2.6, the default maximum size of a shared
>         memory segments is too low for PostgreSQL. The relevant settings
>         can be changed in /etc/system, for example:
>
>         set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax=0x2000000
>         set shmsys:shminfo_shmmin=1
>         set shmsys:shminfo_shmmni=256
>         set shmsys:shminfo_shmseg=256
>
>         set semsys:seminfo_semmap=256
>         set semsys:seminfo_semmni=512
>         set semsys:seminfo_semmns=512
>         set semsys:seminfo_semmsl=32
>
> [snip...]
>
> Should I do this?
>
> Thanks,
> Kevin
>
> --
> Kevin Old <kold@carolina.rr.com>
>
>
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